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90
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Critic Score

63
Critics' score based on 38 reviews.
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The nagging desire to help these people underscores the involvement of the audience in this superbly told story. You can almost taste the saltwater, and the fear.Full Review

Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle

In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Rarely, but sometimes, a movie can have an actual physical effect on you. It gets under your defenses and sidesteps the "it's only a movie" reflex and creates a visceral feeling that might as well be real. Open Water had that effect on me.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

The ending -- a more devastating surprise than "The Village" could manage -- caps eighty sweat-job minutes of imaginative, jolting suspense.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

A tour-de-force thriller that deftly transforms its low-budget limitations into spectacular assets.Full Review

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